In order to make sure that your WebQuest stays aligned with your unit, you will need to copy and paste 3 things from your Stages 1 and 2 from Dr. Grace's wiki onto this page. (This will also help Dr. Theresa give you better feedback on your Intro, Task, and Conclusion.) Then you will write your first drafts of your Introduction and Conclusion.
G.R.A.S.P.S
Goal: Create a video summary of the Civil War for the History Channel.
Role: A historical filmmaker to get your foot into video design.
Audience: You will present your intro video to the board of directors of the History Channel.
Situation:The context is to effectively summarize the social, political, and future impact of the Civil War.
Product/Presentation:Create a video in iMovie that succinctly covers the Civil Wars in all its facets.
Understanding(s)
Students will understand that:
•the causes of the Civil War went beyond Slavery and how those causes effected the Reconstruction period and onwards.
•the Civil War challenged and defended the founding/previous ideals and documents of the United States.
•people during the Civil War had multiple perspectives and what caused those.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:
•Why did the Civil War occur?
•How did the War affect different groups of people and why?
•How did the War cause democratic and constitutional shifts?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:
• Key Prior Information: Bill of Rights, Constitution Northwest Ordinance, Compromise of 1850, Tariff of 1828, Missouri Compromise, Nullification Crisis, Texas Annexation, Mexican-American War, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, 1860 Elections.
• Important Events and People: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Slave Act, Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, William T. Sherman, Petersburg, Appomattox Court House, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Walt Whitman, Immigration Act of 1924.
“The tea has been thrown overboard, the revolution of 1860 has been initiated.” – Charleston MercuryNewspaper
“There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter, and I trust, the stronger party.”-- Ulysses S. Grant
The American Civil War was a bloody conflict between North and South states, which was fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States. Much of the conflict steamed from the issue of slavery, although in many different facets. The effects of the Civil War were long-lasting and still are shaping our word by making us questions who is a citizens and what it means to be an American.
But does discovering these things have to be boring?
Nope!
That's where television channels such as the History Channel come into the picture! According to The New York Times the channel flung History from a top 20 status on cable to the top 5 and much of this success comes from hit shows/specials such as "Vikings", "American Pickers", "Pawn Stars", "Gettysburg" and "Mankind The Story of All of Us". The secret to success? The History Channel has taken the facts of History and streamlined them in novel, exciting ways while also taking fresh perspectives on long-covered events.
Now, it's your turn to try your hand at such a task.
Just change the "channel" and we'll get started!
Task
It turns out that the History Channel is creating a week long mini-series on the Civil War and are looking for an interesting, new look for the series. So, the History Channel's board of directionshave constructed a contest to find someone to lead the project. You are a historical filmmaker that is trying to get your foot into the entertainment door, so you decide to enter the contest. The contest requires the participant to create a intro video presentation that is interesting, engaging and effectively summarizes the course and consequences of the Civil War. There are many other filmmakers trying for the job and therefore you must make your video informative, well-made and most of all succeed in being a hook for new audience for the History Channel.
Conclusion
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”– Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address – March 4, 1865
The History Channel thanks you for submissive and for all your hard work on this project! They hope to hire you and your team again in the future.
The History Channel recognizes that you have unearthed the effects, negative and positive, of the Civil War. The History Channels' board sees that you have honed logical and analytical skills to take a situation and relate it within your own perspectives and cultural identity in exciting, streamlined ways.
That’s the road thus far, if you wish to continue plotting your course through history here are resources, which can only improve upon your cinematic opus and further projects:
G.R.A.S.P.S
Understanding(s)
•the causes of the Civil War went beyond Slavery and how those causes effected the Reconstruction period and onwards.
•the Civil War challenged and defended the founding/previous ideals and documents of the United States.
•people during the Civil War had multiple perspectives and what caused those.
What essential questions will be considered?
•Why did the Civil War occur?
•How did the War affect different groups of people and why?
•How did the War cause democratic and constitutional shifts?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
• Key Prior Information: Bill of Rights, Constitution Northwest Ordinance, Compromise of 1850, Tariff of 1828, Missouri Compromise, Nullification Crisis, Texas Annexation, Mexican-American War, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, 1860 Elections.
• Important Events and People: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Slave Act, Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, William T. Sherman, Petersburg, Appomattox Court House, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Walt Whitman, Immigration Act of 1924.
•Vocabulary: Civil War, Republican, Democratic, Union, Confederacy, Compromise, Tariff, Nullification, Annexation, Emancipation, Reconstruction, popular sovereignty, abolitionist, scorched earth warfare, copperheads, rebel,
patriot
Introduction
“The tea has been thrown overboard, the revolution of 1860 has been initiated.” – Charleston Mercury Newspaper“There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter, and I trust, the stronger party.” -- Ulysses S. Grant
The American Civil War was a bloody conflict between North and South states, which was fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States. Much of the conflict steamed from the issue of slavery, although in many different facets. The effects of the Civil War were long-lasting and still are shaping our word by making us questions who is a citizens and what it means to be an American.
But does discovering these things have to be boring?
Nope!
That's where television channels such as the History Channel come into the picture! According to The New York Times the channel flung History from a top 20 status on cable to the top 5 and much of this success comes from hit shows/specials such as "Vikings", "American Pickers", "Pawn Stars", "Gettysburg" and "Mankind The Story of All of Us". The secret to success? The History Channel has taken the facts of History and streamlined them in novel, exciting ways while also taking fresh perspectives on long-covered events.
Now, it's your turn to try your hand at such a task.
Just change the "channel" and we'll get started!
Task
It turns out that the History Channel is creating a week long mini-series on the Civil War and are looking for an interesting, new look for the series. So, the History Channel's board of directions have constructed a contest to find someone to lead the project. You are a historical filmmaker that is trying to get your foot into the entertainment door, so you decide to enter the contest. The contest requires the participant to create a intro video presentation that is interesting, engaging and effectively summarizes the course and consequences of the Civil War. There are many other filmmakers trying for the job and therefore you must make your video informative, well-made and most of all succeed in being a hook for new audience for the History Channel.Conclusion
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” – Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address – March 4, 1865
The History Channel thanks you for submissive and for all your hard work on this project! They hope to hire you and your team again in the future.
The History Channel recognizes that you have unearthed the effects, negative and positive, of the Civil War. The History Channels' board sees that you have honed logical and analytical skills to take a situation and relate it within your own perspectives and cultural identity in exciting, streamlined ways.
That’s the road thus far, if you wish to continue plotting your course through history here are resources, which can only improve upon your cinematic opus and further projects: